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Roebling’s Delaware Aqueduct, the oldest wire rope suspension structure in the U.S. (National Park Service Photo).
Celebrating the first crossing
On April 26, 1849, the first boat crossed over the newly built wire rope suspension aqueduct on the Delaware River designed by John A. Roebling for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company. … more
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Mother Polycarpa.
Mother Superior
Catherine Staigele was born in Brooklyn in 1870, but spent nearly all of her professional life in Sullivan County. She was as accomplished during her lifetime as perhaps any woman in the area, and … more
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An illustration by Robert Sauber from the book, “A Night Sky Lined with Silver.”
The night sky lined with silver
Back in 2005, author Yvonne David set her first children’s book, “Out of the Apple Orchard” in the hamlet of Mountaindale in 1910. The book told the story of a young boy named Adam … more
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Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa.
Dr. Roosa passes away
On March 8, 1908, Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa, one of New York City’s most prominent doctors and a native of Sullivan County, suffered a major heart attack and died. Few men from the … more
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Jean Amatucci Fox in 2020. She was the first woman to represent Sullivan County in the New York State Assembly, the first Registered Nurse elected to the NYS Assembly, and the first woman to give birth while in office in the NYS Legislature.
Sullivan County’s first assemblywoman
The fact that since 1987 the month of March has been celebrated as Women’s History Month in this country provides an interesting perspective on the recent announcement by Assemblywoman Aileen … more
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Sunset Acres
In many ways, Sunset Acres in Parksville was typical of a small 1960s Sullivan County resort, offering guests “beautiful lobbies, filtered swimming pool, a comfortable large dining room, tennis … more
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The 26th U.S.C.T. on parade in 1864.
Henry C. Jackson
Henry Clay Jackson of Wurtsboro lived one of the most eventful lives of any resident of Sullivan County ever, and yet few today are familiar with his name. For one thing, Jackson, an African … more
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William and Fannie Harden.
Harden’s Forestview Lodge
For decades, Fannie Harden worked alongside her husband William to build the Forestview Lodge near Swan Lake into a successful business, carrying on alone after his death. When she passed away, the … more
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Author Michael J. Worden will be in Eldred on Saturday, February 10.
Lynched by a mob
On June 2, 1892, an angry mob of several hundred men dragged Robert Lewis nearly half a mile through the streets and hanged him from a tree. Lewis, also known as Robert Jackson, was an African … more
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A charcoal portrait of New Mexico’s John Sullivan, circa 1871.
The saga of Monticello, New Mexico
Those familiar with Sullivan County history likely know the story well: the brothers Samuel Frisbee Jones and John Patterson Jones, born in Connecticut, came here from Columbia County around 1804 and … more
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Longtime Fallsburg Supervisor Mortimer Michaels was a vocal supporter of moving the county highway facility from Barryville to Monticello.
To move or not to move
The great division of eastern and western Sullivan County has reared its head politically several times over the years, perhaps no more so than in the heated controversy over moving the … more
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Main Street, Jeffersonville circa 1914. The Eagle Hotel is visible just to the right of center. 
An impending centennial
Even before New York Governor Kathy Hochul cleared the way last week for a new village to be formed in Sullivan County—a referendum on January 18 will determine the fate of what is proposed to … more
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